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| It contains remixes from Zombi, Tim Hecker, The Soft Moon, Xander Harris and more. |
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| It's like short attention-span theater for your inner noise freak. |
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| The new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album Push The Sky Away arrives on Feb. 19, and today we get a listen for the song 'We No Who U R,' which is being released as a single this week. |
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| They pay tribute in an awesome new mixtape stream. |
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| The album arrives next week, check out the full album preview today. |
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| It's a reworking of music from Reconstructed: The Definitive DJ Shadow. |
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| He wrote the music during his Kraftwerk days, then recently revamped it sound modern. |
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| The new offering from Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin with Instrumental Tourist, an experimentation in ambient electronic sounds. |
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| Check out a full album preview of the new album The Odds from The Evens. Ian MacKaye has a long history in the roots of hardcore punk and thrash with his start in Minor Threat, before moving forward with his punk band Fugazi and his independent recording label Dischord Records. |
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| Animal Collective dropped new music with the song "Crimson," an offshoot from their current album Centipede Hz, which is a battle between listenability and experimentalism. |
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| The song sets a strong electro-meets-beats tone, reminiscent of an 808 state drum machine. Singer Alice Glass remains subdued in the background with her vocals, and her 'Affection' stays on a short leash with the song clocking in at just over two minutes. |
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| Mute Records has launched a sampler for Fall, with great music from Apparat, Liars, Can and more. |
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| For fans of dirty, scroungy, fuzzy indie rock. Parakeet scrounge up the kind of grunge-light pop song that seems to be making a resurgence these days with bands like DIIV. |
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| New music from Portishead front man Geoff Barrow. |
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| Earlier this month, the Trent Reznor, Mariqueen Maandig and Atticus Ross project How to destroy angels_ released the song “Keep It Together,” and now they've released the Dave Sitek remix. |
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Today we get a preview of the upcoming Sonic Youth
live album called Smart Bar - Chicago 1985, with the song "Intro / Brave Men Run (In My Family)" off the original album Bad Moon Rising. |
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| It's funky ... like some 70's-influenced psychedelic Xanadu/The Wiz crossover playground. |
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| Between The Liner Notes talks to Liv Buli from Next Big Sound on Big Data and how it can be used by artists to figure who is listening to their music and what way they’re sharing it via social media. She predicted the “Best New Artist” at the MTV Video Music Awards based on her interpretation of data. |
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| Good for anyone clamoring for the guitar sounds The Cure used in their heyday in the eighties and that almost underground new wave vibe from the halcyon days. |
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| Paul Banks from Interpol is releasing a new album called Banks next week on Matador Records, you have a chance to stream it all week. |
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| It was just released digitally last week and is in stores this week, and Daphni is the latest big project from Dan Snaith of Caribou. The album is called JIAOLONG, and features nine songs of unpredictable sounds and melody when electronic music and it’s poppy variant EDM are becoming overprogrammed and falling victim to the button-pusher aesthetic. |
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| The NIN influence is clear, but it definitely has its own sound. |
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| The brash, noisy experiment is growing into smart and interesting pop sounds. |
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| More remixes from their remix album, this time Com Truise weighs in. |
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| The music on Former Lives comes from various songs he's written over time, compiled as a full-length that he worked on with Aaron Espinoza from Earlimart. |
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| Trent Reznor and friends remix the new Telepathe single coming out on Dave Sitek's new label. |
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| It will be the first release in five years, and today we get to listen to a track from the album. |
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| Prototypical dubstep moves for sure, still it plays like a lively adrenalin-filled take on some Bassnectar's best music. |
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| They're trying to move beyond grime and dubstep and into new territory, and it's safe to say that they've broken through that here. | |
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| Check out crazy new sounds from Dan Deacon with the song "Crash Jam" off of his new album America. Wild keyboard undulations meet a steady pounding rhythm and a chorus of background vocals. | |
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| Mr. Gibbard releases another song from his forthcoming album Former Lives. | |
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| A new song today from the garage mastermind known as SBTRKT, a.k.a. Aaron Jerome. Heavily syncopated beats drop as keyboards loop in and and out, it's a SBTRKT thang. | |
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| The song is "Sheila" and it's from the album Grace/Confusion which is due out later this year. | |
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| They're self-titled album is being released this week in North America, and Four Tet works his magic on the remix. | |
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| Lonerism arrives via Modular Records and will be the second full-length release from the band. | |
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| The trip-hop mastermind turned music producer mogul Tricky has remixed the Antlers track "Crest," off their recent album Undersea. | |
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| Tame Impala is releasing their album Lonerism in October, and today we're already seeing a remix of the song "Elephant," as done up by Modular labelmates Canyons. | |
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| Their hyper-intense psych guitar style is definitely on display here, with eastern influences that almost sound like they're wanting to play this music on a sitar. | |
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| It's part of a 7" single that will be offered up on upcoming tour dates in the US, or you can order it directly via their web site. | |
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| Check out the new Flying Lotus album Until The Quiet Comes this in its entirety. The album is due out next week and is the follow up his classic album Cosmogramma from 2010, and the LA-based producer is in prime form. | |
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| Adam Pierce and his Mice Parade project are back with a fresh compilation, with songs ranging from the Ramda release as well as various singles ... there's even a BBC Session and live track thrown in as well. |
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| Pancho-san is the project of Patrick Abernethy, who you might remember from work with Rogue Wave and Elephant 6 indie rock band Beulah. He's back with a new Pancho-san album, which was released this week. The sounds vary from a sort of tropical indie rock to Brazilian pop, a definite imprint of the San Diego scene is left on this music. |
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| Straight from the Twilight Sad remix album for No One Can Ever Know comes one of the first online singles to surface -- the Liars remix of the song 'Nil.' |
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| Lymbyc Systym has shown influences in the past that range from Explosions In The Sky, My Bloody Valentine, Tortoise, Broadcast, and a lot more. On SYMB0LY5T they add in Mount Eerie, The Album Leaf and more as they veer back and forth from crashing errortronica to sublime indie rock, showing a deft hand in song construction and knowing where to lead the song and when. | |
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| Ricardo Villalobos has a new album called Dependant and Happy out next week, and NPR Music is streaming it all week long ahead of its release. It's minimal techno with lots of uptempo beats and good vibes. Intricate drum programming takes center stage, with each beat being precise and complex. | |
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| Check out the interview and a three-song performance. | |
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| Get the lowdown on the upcoming Band of Horses release Mirage Rock ... by listening to a full album stream in its entirety. |
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| Check out the new Death Grips single courtesy of the Adult Swim Singles Series, it's a song called @DeathGripz, which is of course a great way to remind everyone of how find Death Grips on Twitter. |
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| It features Prince-like vocal freak outs, up and down jams and everything that is funky about the band. | |
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| Los Angelino by way of Cambridge, England (a natural path to follow, to be sure), K-The-I??? brings back brings back the bombastic bass of The Bomb Squad that worked with Public Enemy while looking forward to combination of electronic music, hip hop stylings and funky, funky beats. | |
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| Nine Black Alps, a post-punk / indie rock band from Manchester are set to return to form this year with a new album titled Sirens, due out on Oct 8 via Brew Records. They have a heavy-duty and energy filled new song called "Living In A Dream," | |
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| The new Deerhoof album Breakup Song is out this week, and today they've released a full album stream and a video for the song "Fête d'Adieu." | |
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| The new Stars album The North is out today via ATO Records, and the band is currently streaming the entire album. Catch them on tour this Fall, playing shows with Metric, Diamond Rings and California Wives depending on location. | |
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| The xx are back with a full album stream of their upcoming album Coexist, which arrives next week on Sept. 11 via Young Turks. | |
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| Mikey Maramag, a.k.a. Blackbird Blackbird, has remixed the Bjork song "Hidden Place" in advance of his Boracay Planet EP, which is due out on Lavish Habits on Oct. 6. |
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| Memory Tapes has remixed the DIIV track "Follow" in Summer's last blast. | |
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| Check out the new Why? song “Jonathan’s Hope” from their upcoming album Mumps | |
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| Electronic music mastermind and always creative guy Martin Dosh offers up a song in support of the 2012 Graveface Charity Subscription Series. | |
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| Imagine Explosions In The Sky in chill mode. | |
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| I'm not sure if it's possible to sound like southern California or LA in general, but this song invokes everything that's good about the scene. I could totally imagine this song being part of the Repo Man soundtrack ... it just has that vibe. | |
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| Remember how great and right on Tricky was back in the day? I'm talking Maxinquaye and Pre-Millenium Tension era Tricky, went he was an experimental madman set to redefine electronic music? JerimiahJae is the reincarnation of that vibe in the modern context. | |
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| Great new music from Portland indie rock band Menomena today with the song "Capsule," from their new album Moms, out on Sept. 18, 2012 via Barsuk Records. | |
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| It features a more hard-edged take on the song, dropping in chugga-chugga metal riffs in place of the classic BMSR synths. IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP | |
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| The new Sea Wolf album Old World Romance is coming out on Sept. 11 via Dangerbird Records, and the new song "Priscilla" has surfaced online in advance of the album release. The band has a sort of Southern California indie pop sound, creating quiet songs that reward you after repeated listening. | |
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| Four Tet is releasing new music with the album Pink today, and two songs have surfaced as a preview from the album, namely "Lion" and "Peace For Earth." | |
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| America from Dan Deacon arrives on Domino Records on August 28th, so we have a full week to listen before the release date -- the album is available as a full album stream right now. | |
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| Nathan Fake is starting to get real about his album Steam Days, which has a release date of Sept. 3 and is the first new Nathan Fake album since Hard Islands in 2009. Check out the song "Neketona" from the new album. | |
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| As promised by the band, Animal Collective previewed their upcoming album Centipede Hz last night on Animal Collective Radio. We all still have today to check out the album in its entirety, as the band has it streaming all day long. | |
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| Check out the new Helio Sequence track with "Hall of Mirrors," it's part of their upcoming album Negotiations. Indie pop from Portland! | |
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| Got a case of the Mondays? Listen to "The Hill." | |
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| Let me tell you about a little thing called Divine Fits ... the new band from Britt Daniel (Spoon), Dan Boeckner (Handsome Furs, Wolf Parade) and Sam Brown (who's destined to be the "other guy" in the band, even though he was in punk heavyweights New Bomb Turks). | |
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| New music! It arrives next week, check out the full album this week. | |
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| The MAN is back with a Fabriclive mix of 19 essential tracks that clocks in at about 45 minutes. A well known drum and bass guy, LTJ Bukem has a long history of mix both vibe and listenability, giving his music life in both the club and in your headphones. | |
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| The Big Pink performing "Hit the Ground (Superman)" live in New York. | |
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| New music today from their upcoming album The North. | |
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| The new song from The xx called "Chained" arrived today, off of their album Coexist. | |
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| It's one of the most important movies in the history of indie cinema: David Lynch's Eraserhead. It's seeing new life with a deluxe vinyl reissue of the soundtrack, which is being released today. | |
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| Check out Django Django on their self-titled debut album, available this week in a full album stream. The band is a quartet from London, by way of an Edinburgh art school, and the album was released earlier this year in Europe and is now hitting North America by way of Ribbon Music (next week). | |
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| Yet again we hear new music from the upcoming Grizzly Bear album Shields with the song song "Yet Again." | |
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| This what happens when EDM / house music gets hardcore ... It bounces from the rave-esque keyboard loops to hard-hitting beats and non-stop energy. | |
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| Deerhoof have seen a resurgence of activity lately with the announcement of their new album Breakup Song, now the San Francisco band has released the first song with “The Trouble With Candyhands.” | |
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| It has the patented Gauntlet Hair sound cocktail of noise-pop via reverb, fuzzed out guitars and an otherwordly quality that gives the band it's unique sound. | |
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| The new Red Kross album Researching the Blues is availalble as a full album stream today. “It has the most singular artistic vision of any record we’ve done. It’s just 10 really fucking awesome songs that have the ability to move you in many different ways,” said Steven McDonald. | |
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| After this weekend's launch of Animal Collective Radio comes the release of a new song from Animal Collective, namely the new "Today's Supernatural" off of the upcoming album Centipede Hz. ALSO: they want you to make your own Centipede Hz remix and send it to them, and they'll "randomly select five people who have submitted their own shows and send them test pressings of the Centipede Hz vinyl." | |
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| Everybody loves the story of an underdog bootstrapping their way to better means ... and reggae has been the soundtrack for that story. It's a musical soundtrack for good times, fighting-the-struggle times, even high times. On Out of Many: 50 Years of Reggae Music, you'll find some great throwbacks to the roots of reggae, with tracks from The Skatalites, Junior Byles, Yellowman and more. | |
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| New music from a new album. | |
| New music from Four Tet-approved Percussions, an artist on Kieran Hebden's Text Records. | |
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| Crystal Castles are warming up their hype machine with a new song today, it's a remix of the song "Doe Deer." It's amped up as a sonic assault in the most awesome way, this one is good for night time listening on the Interweb hi-fi. | |
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| We were promised new Flying Lotus today from his new album Until The Quiet Comes with the song -- Lovers Melt 3 and here's a bonus song: the song "Between Friends" is now available on Soundcloud via the Adult Swim Singles Program. | |
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| The new video from Blitzen Trapper for the song “Girl In A Coat,” off their American Goldwing album. “Girl In A Coat” was directed by Daniel Elkayam and was the brainchild of Blitzen Trapper drummer Brian Koch, who said ... | |
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| Soon you too will be walking around saying repeatedly: VEL - O - DROME. VEL - O - DROME. | |
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| The xx are back with a new song from their upcoming album Coexist. You can coexist with the album on its ominous release date of Sept. 11, it's arriving via Young Turks. The xx recorded the album at their own studio over the Winter. | |
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| As if Frank Ocean wasn't garnering enough attention as of late for the release of his critically lauded new album Channel Orange and his stunning performance on Jimmy Fallon last week, The Afghan Whigs have released their own robust version of his "Lovecrimes." | |
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| Brooklyn goes chill and beat-centric with "Fang" by Eraas. | |
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| The Brooklyn-based afrobeat all stars have a super-charged sound full of energy for the get up and go track to supercharge your Tuesday. | |
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| More on the new album and a free song. | |
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| The new Dinosaur Jr. song "Watch the Corners," from their upcoming album I Bet On Sky, due out on Sept. 17. | |
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| Drum and bass guy LTJ Bukem (a.k.a. Danny Williamson) has offered up two new songs called "Atmospherical Jubilancy" and "Music Technicolour Rework," and any LTJ Bukem fan will find him landing the vibe on these. | |
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| Dead Can Dance are releasing a new album called Anastasis and going on a world tour this year, and they've offered up the entire album for streaming via their web site. This is the first Dead Can Dance album in 16 years, and looks to be a return to form. | |
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| The quiet and lurking Massive Attack have reworked "The Don" by Nas, giving it the full-on Massive Attack workover. | |
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| The Antlers have released the first song from their upcoming EP Undersea with the track "Drift Drive," and it's streaming right now, complete with underwater-esque sounds. | |
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| There's a new stream for the song available from Divine Fits, the project of Britt Daniel (Spoon), Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade) and Sam Brown (New Bomb Turks), for the song “My Love Is Real.” There's also a new preview video for the new album. | |
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| The new Ty Segall Band album Slaughterhouse is available as a full album stream. This might the first-ever NSFW audio-only offering, and it's NSFW because it JUST NEEDS TO BE PLAYED LOUD. For god sakes, wait till' you get home. Cruise over to the hi-fi and stream it over wi-fi, forget about the neighbors and go full throttle. IT'S JUST THAT GOOD. | |
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| Just because you've been clamoring for the forgotten pop of the 70's as it existed on the AM radio dial, the new album from Beachwood Sparks, The Tarnished Gold, is streaming as a full album right now. So put the top down on the convertible and take a drive down the Pacific Coast Highway with Beachwood Sparks. This is the mellowest of mellow vibes for your Monday. | |
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| The new song 'Dance for You,' from Dirty Projectors' upcoming album Swing Lo Magellan. | |
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| Dub / dream pop / electronic duo Peaking Lights are releasing their album Lucifer next week, and you can listen to a full album. | |
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| Electronic bytes meet old school Southampton punk/rock/blues with UNKLE working down the Band of Skulls song “Sweet Sour.” | |
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| The new single "Leave Your Body Behind You" from Richard Hawley, off of the album Standing At The Sky's Edge. | |
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| Check out the Fiona Apple album, The Idler Wheel... as a full album stream. | |
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| Check out the new Glen Hansard album Rhythm And Repose as a full album stream. | |
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| More new music from A Place to Bury Strangers with the song “And I'm Up” off of their upcoming album Worship. “And I'm Up” has the flame-tempered guitar sounds we know from APTBS, albeit with a more produced guitar sound. | |
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| The new Clark album Iradelphic has been out for a while now, and the new Iradelphic Sessions have emerged as an ongoing series of music from the recording sessions. | |
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| Listen to the new album There's No Leaving Now from The Tallest Man On Earth. | |
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| It's being released next week, but you can preview the entire album right now. | |
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| Metric have made their upcoming album Synthetica available as a full album stream over at SoundCloud, ahead of its release date of June 12 in North America. | |
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| New music arrives from Metric with Synthetica on June 12, today they've released the track "Speed." | |
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| Check the remix of the Modeselektor track All Buttons In, which is the b-side to "This," one of the tracks from the Modeselektor album Monkeytown. The song features the vocals of Thom Yorke from Radiohead. | |
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| Fresh off of the Sigur Ros Valtari Hour last week, in which the band streamed their new album at 7:00 PM in every time zone around the world comes the opportunity to hear it again, on your own schedule, as a full album. | |
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| The new Walkmen album Heaven is due out next week, and you can stream the full album right now. | |
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| MV & EE have a new track out called “Sweet Sure Gone,” and it’s from their new album called Space Homestead, which is out this week via Woodsist. | |
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| New music from Mystery Jets with "Greatest Hits," off of the album Radlands. | |
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| New music from psych / garage rock band JEFF the Brotherhood, with the song 'Sixpack' off of the Hypnotic Knights EP (produced by Dan Auerbach of Black Keys). | |
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| New music from Yeasayer with “”Henrietta,” part of a new batch of songs from the band that they’ll be touring around with this Summer. |
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| Health have released their new song “Tears” today, the theme song for Max Payne 3. |
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| The new song “The House You Made” from The Walkmen, off of their album Heaven. |
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| “Gloria” is the get up and go track of the week, and the perfect Summer jam, introduced nicely by Virals as Spring starts to tilt towards Summer. Virals is the musical project of Shaun Hencher, who used to front the band Lovvers. | |
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| Citing influences as broad as Jesus and Mary Chain, The Pixies, Sleater-Kinney, The Breeders, and Juliana Hatfield; Fawn know how to do more than just fawn over some of the great names in 1990’s alternative music as well as indie rock in the 2000’s. | |
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| The new song “We Can't Be Beat” from The Walkmen, off of their album Heaven. |
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| Four Tet is back with two new songs today: 'Ocara' and 'Jupiters.' |
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| Deadmau5 is back with a new song, “The Veldt.” This was the song that Joel Zimmerman, a.k.a. Deadmau5 collaborated on with Chris James. Anyone who follows the prolific Deadmau5 Twitter will know that Deadmau5 looked for a collaborator via Twitter, searching for someone who wanted to go beyond boring club lyrics and reach for something fresh and new. | |
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| The new Best Coast album The Only Place is available as a full album stream today, part of a new songwriting approach from Bethany Cosentino. | |
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| Animal Collective have a new 7" single out today, titled “Honeycomb,” with a b-side of “Gotham.” |
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| The new Silversun Pickups album comes out next week on Dangerbird Records, and it’s available as a full album stream right now. |
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| This has definitely been the week of My Bloody Valentine. First we had news from Kevin Shields that the new My Bloody Valentine album and EP would arrive this year and even a preview of the unreleased song “Good For You.” Now comes the long-promised reissue of the classic album Loveless, and you can preview it in full right now. |
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| From the album Machines That Make Civilization Fun, out on May 8 via Mush Records. | |
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| Take the desert-dwelling, raspy-throated voaclas of Gonjasufi and lay them over a track from Humansuit (Isaiah Toothtaker and Mestizo) then throw Flying Lotus in producer and you've got the funky new song "Lawnmower Man." | |
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| If you dig dub, dream pop or electronic music with a spirit of adventurousness, Peaking Lights is a good act to check out. They have a laid-back, slinky sort of vibe that's cool and casual while also being interesting. | |
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| The opera known as Dr Dee, first performed live at the Manchester International Festival and created by creative at large Damon Albarn and theatre Director Rufus Norris, gets a first listen starting today as a full album stream. The project is a bit of a serious and offshoot for Damon Albarn, who at this point has license to do whatever he wants whenever he wants. | |
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| The b-side of the Sigur Ros Record Store Day release has surfaced online, and you can check it as a stream, it's titled “Kvistur.” Sigur Ros will release their new album Valtari in May. | |
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| Dante Vs Zombies may have just created a new genre with Spaghetti-Western-Jungle-Anthem-Not-Quite-Gentrified-Ghetto-Pop. | |
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| Siddhartha ... the name alone is curious. A band that tags their Soundcloud songs with opposing forces like post-punk, shoegaze and my favorite - Black Hole Oscillators. | |
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| It's the final wave of remixes before the full on release of the Dross Glop remix album. Check out remixes from Gang Gang Dance and Hudson Mowawke as well as previous remixes. | |
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| It's at the nexus of electronic music and funk, influenced by almost abstract hip-hop leanings. It's your get-up-and-go track for the day. | |
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| Chris Clark a.k.a. Clark releases Iradelphic this week via Warp Records. The electronic music / IDM musician travelled far and wide to record the sounds on Iradelphic, and you can hear the first song to be released from the album, “Com Touch” | |
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| Check out the first new track from A Place To Bury Strangers' upcoming album Worship with the song "You Are the One. It features their patented "jet engine textures" aesthetic and was produced by the band. | |
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| Check out new music from Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band with the song "Warm Body," from their upcoming EP. | |
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| New music from John Maus with an unreleased song titled "No Title (Molly)" from the upcoming Smuggler's Way magazine from Domino Records. | |
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| Dirty Projectors announced their new album Swing Lo Magellan today ... listen to the first song "Gun Has No Trigger." | |
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| The new Dandy Warhols video for the song "Sad Vacation" comes from their upcoming new album This Machine. | |
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| "Bright Night" is the first full-on song released from the album, and it's an almost new school jazzy take on electronic music. It has plenty of blips and stop-and-start action, but with a layer of something more energetic and sophisticated on top of it. | |
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| Memoryhouse do a cover of "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" by the Police for The Onion's A.V. Club. | |
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| The song sounds like the Louder Than Love-era part of the Soundarden discography -- thick and lively and more of a return to their roots than the big, bombastic Soundgarden machine that took over as Grunge moved from a mainstream big recording label phenomenon to post-phase, big sounding metal. | |
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| "Crystalline" is the most drum and bass-type track on Biophilia, and the remix doubles down on that with more electronic music influences ... | |
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| Claire Boucher has more than just Grimes going on, as she's just unveiled a new side project called Membrain, a collaboration with Tim Lafontaine (Cop Car Bonfire) that will release a new EP titled Sit Back, Rewind at an as-of-yet unspecified date sometime this year. Check out the tracks "Airic," "Grime" and "Dream" | |
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| Silversun Pickups will release their third full-length album titled Neck of the Woods on May 8 via Dangerbird Records, and today we get our first taste of the new music with the song “Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings).” | |
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| The album arrives in April, check out a full preview now. | |
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| It features the now-patented bass drop we know and love about Bassnectar, with contributions from Lupe Fiasco. | |
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| Real Estate have offered up the song "Exactly Nothing" as a stream. It's the b-side to the song/single "Easy" off of the album Days. Domino Records suggests that it’s “best enjoyed outside, with sunglasses and an ice cold mug of your favourite American craft beer.” | |
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| The SXSW Music Festival wrapped up over the weekend ... check out the Andrew Bird performance live from Stubbs. | |
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| The SXSW Music Festival wrapped up over the weekend ... check out the Andrew Bird performance live from Stubbs. | |
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| “There’s nothing like sitting in a completely quiet room, and then the strings start up. It’s like when you go to the cinema — the first two or three minutes of any film are amazing. Because the screen is so big. The scale. Directors can pretty much do anything for those first few minutes. It doesn’t matter how many films you see — it’s still kind of a moment.” | |
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| It's time ... the Lee Ranaldo solo album will be released next week ... check out a full album preview now. | |
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| The new incarnation -- Dross Glop 3 -- features the Silent Servantt remix of the song "Inchworm," the Klanding Ray remix of the song "Toddler," and the Qluster remix of "Domincan Fade." | |
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| There's a new Arcade Fire song called "Abraham's Daughter," and it's from The Hunger Games Soundtrack. | |
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| Check out the new song "Hey Jane" from Spiritualized, off of the their upcoming Sweet Heart Sweet Light album due out this Spring. |
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| Preview the new collab with Andre 3000 of Outkast and James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem & watch the preview video. | |
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| The new album is out next month ... hear a song now. | |
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| Battles have announced the next phase of their Gloss Drop remixes, aptly titled Dross Glop. When they say remix, they MEAN IT, even with the title. | |
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| A new get-you-out-of-your-seat Reggae Dancehall track called "Musical Rebels" just dropped on the German label Supersonic Sound. | |
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| Check out the new Busdriver song “Superhand's Mantra (F**k Us All)” that was done with Aesop Rock. Its part of the full album release Beaus$Eros, which arrives on Feb. 14 via Circle Into Square. Busdriver is touring this month and will eventually arrive at SXSW in Austin, which leads to the inevitable question ... who's driving the bus on a Busdriver tour? | |
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| The new Air album Le Voyage Dans La Lune arrives this week, and the full album is available as a stream. | |
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| The new Mark Lanegan Band album Blues Funeral is due out this week, and there's a full album streaming until its release. | |
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| Check out Timbaland and Lyrica Anderson on the song “Mentally” ...
they’ve worked together before on Timbalands’ Shock Value 3. Mentally
has over 10,000 downloads on iTunes and Lyrica is currently working on
an album that includes the song “Love Me.” Together, they’re like
Bonnie and Clyde. | |
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| Check out the new EP from A Place to Bury Strangers EP titled Onwards to the Wall. It's their first release after signing to Dead Oceans last Fall, and is the much-anticipated follow up to the classic Exploding Head album in 2009, which had exactly that effect when listening to it. | |
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| Are you ready for the personal confessions of Kevin Barnes in their latest form? Check out a full album stream of Paralytic Stalks. |
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| The song takes a sharp and serious turn about half way through, breaking from the verse chorus verse pop format and providing some interesting and dark corners. | |
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| The indie pop - indie rock - punk -post punk stylings of Howler weave an interesting cocktail of elements into their sound on their new album “America Give Up.” They're being compared to The Strokes, Guided by Voices, The Jam and The Buzzcocks ... and that's just the beginning of their sound. | |
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| More Radiohead tracks have surfaced online ... "Fat Girl" and "Fragile Friend," songs that are supposedly from before guitarist Jonny Greenwood joined the band. The band name was supposedly On a Friday at that point ... leading us to believe that the move to call themselves Radiohead was a good choice. | |
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| Thavius Beck often draws comparisons to DJ Shadow and Orbital, but the song "MPCless" is more glitch and funky than DJ Shadow. | |
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| Check out new music from by Karin Dreijer Andersson (The Knife, Fever Ray) with the song “No Face,” from the new We Are the Works in Progress compilation. | |
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| Trent Reznor was the guest on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross today, and Trent actually was comical in his ability to laugh at himself in a self-depricating way. They covered his new The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo soundtrack with Atticus Ross, Gene Simmons, growing up in (and escaping) Cleveland and a lot of Nine Inch Nails history. | |
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| Guided by Voices reunited over the past year and played a few shows, and they've decided that the show must go on. They're releasing a new GBV album titled Let's Go Eat the Factory on Jan. 1, with the classic lineup: Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Greg Demos, Mitch Mitchell and Kevin Fennell. Listen to the album in full today. | |
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| They're out this week as a single, you can stream them now. | |
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| The new Arcade Fire video(s) for "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)" come in three varieties -- 2 traditional video and one interactive. Or as Arcade Fire and director Vincent Morisset call it, "interactive" and "traditional." | |
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| Listen to Four Tet on the song “Moma,” a stream from the We Are the Works in Progress compilation. |
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| The new Matthew Dear song “Headcage” is interesting. It sounds warbly and synthy, all slowly upbeat and plodding along. It's part the upcoming Matthew Dear EP coming out on Jan. 17. | |
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| If only somebody out there was combining the sounds of latin and jazz with the ferociousness of metal into one musical vehicle ... but wait! It's Rodrigo y Gabriela! | |
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| Victoria Legrand seems like a perfect collaborator for the music of Air, maybe we can see an Air / Beach House song in the future? |
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| Jonsi has been working with Cameron Crowe to soundtrack the upcoming We Bought A Zoo movie ... Today a new collaboration between Jonsi and Cameron Crowe hits the web with “Gathering Stories.” | STREAM |
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| The song is instrumental, and it deviates from anything you might hear on the Deadmau5 live show due to the fact that it's introspective and dark, as opposed to the bright bleeps and popping of most of Deadmau5's music. What's going on inside that Deadmau5 head? |
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| Get global with the new album from Buraka Som Sistema, they're combining a whole range of influences, from Brazil, Africa and Jamaica. Catch a groove. |
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| How does a band that used to be at the forefront of a happy-go-lucky twee movement go from that sound to an album titled Hello Sadness? |
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| The video for “Keep Time” is an explosive scene that plays with light at night in an industrial sector of Portland. | VIDEO |
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| The first of many new tracks that will fly on a week by week basis for a Lex Records compilation titled Complex:. |
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| The new Atlas Sound album Parallax is being released via 4AD recording label on Nov. 8, and the full album is streaming right now. | STREAM |
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| The complete Karen O media package -- she perfoms live music from her recent psych opera Stop the Virgens during an interview, plus a video about how the production was done. | VIDEO | STREAM |
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| The second installment from the upcoming Guided By Voices reunion album Let's Go Eat the Factory. The album's gonna be tight! | STREAM |
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| If the Phantogram vibe is "street beat, psych pop" then they're doing that up in a fresh way here. They always mix the shoegaze aesthetic with a more uptempo / hip hop style that favors a little bit of sampling and keeps you moving. And guessing. | MP3 |
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| Deru does double time as a sound designer and film-scorer, and you can hear how he brings that to “Spliff,” so his music becomes a film narrative backdrop for Casual to do his thing. | STREAM |
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| The album is due for release this week, and is the first Tom Waits studio album with completely new music in seven years. | STREAM |
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| Bjork and Dirty Projectors collaborative EP Mount Wittenberg Orca was released last year in a download-only format, and next week sees through an actual limited edition physical EP. Preview a track. |
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| Parts and Labor will go on an indefinite hiatus just as they're celebrating their tenth anniversary. They've planned a series of shows and released a final song to go out in a blaze of glory, with the aptly titled "No Nostalgia." |
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| The new new RJD2 Icebird music project drops a new album The Abandoned Lullaby today. Check out a stream of the song “Charmed Life.” |
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| New Massive Attack for your mind on a Monday. Talk about starting the week off right! It's taken from an upcoming single that includes the song "Paradise Circus" from the Massive Attack album Heligoland, plus a new track with "Four Walls." |
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| The new M83 album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming is set for release next week, and there's a full album stream available right now. |
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| Biophilia arrives in full album form next week ... check out a full album stream right now. | |
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| One of the original purveyors of glitch / electronic indie pop, and it sounds as fresh today as it did back then.| |
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| One part LTJ Bukem and another part new school samples of old school jazz piano riffs. Throw in a loop of drum n' bass rhythms with a soul-inspired vocal loop and BOOM! Soundtrack for a rainy day. |
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| Sigur Ros have released a new track from their upcoming live concert film Inni, a concert film and double live album from a performance at Alexandra Palace in London in 2007. It's the classic “Ný Batterí” and it's available as a MP3. |
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| Thavius Beck often draws comparisons to DJ Shadow and Orbital, but the song "In Excess" has more in common with Homework-era Daft Punk than DJ Shadow. |
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| Their music is a combination of indie rock and retro-folk stylings, almost reminiscent of The Duchess and The Duke, another Hardly Art band. |
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| Yuck has been receiving a lot of space on Spacelab lately, due to influences like My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Sebadoh and even The Lemonheads. |
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| If you've been digging the 4AD Sessions, you'll love the fact that they're compiling them into a limited edition collection titled 4AD Sessions: 2008-2011. Check out the full album stream. |
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| The new single for "Moon" from Bjork comes out this week, listen to it now. | |
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| "Give Up The Ghost" (Thriller Houseghost), "Codex" (Illum Sphere) and "Little by Little" (Shed). | |
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| Our weekend playlist to start the weekend. If you've got 20 minutes, we've got 4 Summer songs to get you going! |
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| The weekend playlist of great music for a Summer weekend. | |
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| The post-dubstep, beat-and-bass-heavy world of Flying Lotus & a cocktail of digital & analog sounds. | |
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| There's a new M83 album due this October ... a heady concept album ... it'll be interesting to see how this plays out as an M83 release. | |
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